gunfire
/ˈɡʌnfʌɪə/noun
gunfire is spelled G-U-N-F-I-R-E: 7 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 3.4 times per million words in written English, the 14,307th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, gunfire means “Shots from a gun or guns, typically creating loud report” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of gunfire is gunfires.
How many letters and syllables are in gunfire?
| Letters | 7: G-U-N-F-I-R-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.4 times per million words; the 14,307th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is gunfire?
Gunfire appears 3.4 times per million words in written English, the 14,307th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce gunfire?
- UK /ˈɡʌnfʌɪə/
Gunfire has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-gunfire.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of gunfire
- gunfires plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does gunfire mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Shots from a gun or guns, typically creating loud report.
Let's hide in the trees to avoid the gunfire.
- 2
The use of gunpowder-type weapons, mainly cannon, as opposed to swords or bayonets.
Killing people became much easier and faster once armies started using gunfire.
- 3
The time of firing of the morning gun or the evening gun.
- 4
slangTea, a cup of tea, especially one served early in the morning before first parade.
They had only in them the rolled mattresses, the neatly piled bed-boards and the empty tea-buckets of the orderly-men, empied of their last gun-fire.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Gunfire in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense shots from guns:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does gunfire come from?
From gun + fire.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).